On a recent visit to my local Caribou Coffee Shop I spotted a Caribou Coffee Card in the form of a key ring and immediately thought; "Great Travel Bug!". I funded the card and sent it on it's mission "to spread friendship across the land". That bug was picked up yesterday and dropped today - without the carrier upholding the TB's mission. Do people not look at the TB description/mission? Is my behaviour so far outside of that expected so as to be completely unexpected?!?!?! I'm not going to give up on this idea . . . . just yet.

Different cachers react to TBs differently. Some always follow the mission if they can, some never do, some pick up the TB planning to follow the mission, but then they don't get around to it and they finally just move the bug along. Other cachers like to rack up numbers and will pick up a bug from one place and drop it somewhere else as quickly as they can.

The world of TBs is pretty random, and your bugs are at the mercy of a bundle of factors. Put them out, watch what happens. I'm always hopeful that I'll get an interesting, funny, or enlightening log when my bugs move, and every once in awhile I do. It's worth the wait.

Your TB is an interesting idea, but it's not entirely clear from the TB description that the card is active. Maybe the finder didn't realize what he had. For what it's worth, I've I get my hands on this TB, I'll be at the nearest Carabou in no time.

it's mission "to spread friendship across the land". That bug was picked up yesterday and dropped today - without the carrier upholding the TB's mission. Do people not look at the TB description/mission?

I think what probably happens most of the time is:

people load a bunch of caches in the GPSr and go out not really knowing what they will find....I was guilty of this myself before I started using my Palm with the cache info on it.

Or...people loaded a bunch of geocaches in for an area they were heading and only got to some of them....at a later date they were nearby and noticed the waypoint nearby on their GPSr so they just "winged it".......I was also guilty of this before using the Palm and actually wasted a lot of time searching for 3 different caches that I later found out had been disabled.

Or... sometimes..it may just be a case of someone fairly new to the sport that hasn't grasped the concept of the Travel Bug yet

I think that probably most of us that have travel bugs out there have had a similar experience or worse......PEOPLE JUST STEAL THEM AND DON'T LOG THEM

Shawn

NOTE: this should probably be moved to the Travel Bugs thread_________________Everyone has a photographic memory..some, like me, just don't have any film.

Unless the mission is written on the TB I don't necessarily know what it is until after I get home. On a long day of caching I may pick several TBs write their numbers down, and drop them the same day in a different cache. Other times, I may hold them for a week or two until drop them. So don't fret. Someone will read it and use it right._________________Airborne All the Way!

I think this is a very clever and generous idea for a travel bug! However, as a non-coffee drinker, I would also probably just move it on to another cache without using it._________________"Hi, I'm Moe, or as the women know me - Hey! You in the bushes."
-Moe, The Simpsons

I'm like a lot of you, I don't know what the mission is until I get home, I don't go to a cache looking for a TB, and I don't look to see if a TB is in the cache before I go. I suggest putting the mission on a laminated card attached to the chain that the TB is on.

Just be happy it was picked up and dropped in another cache within a day -- I wouldn't worry about anything else._________________Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -President Bush